The number of illegal immigrants risking their lives in rickety boats to reach Spain's Canary Islands from northwest Africa has descended to levels last seen a decade ago, officials said Saturday. In 2009, a total of 2,041 adults — and 201 children — arrived ...

Western Sahara independence activist Aminatou Haidar arrived back in the disputed Moroccan territory early Friday on a medically equipped plane from Spain's Canary Islands where she had been on hunger strike for over a month, the Moroccan authorities announced. Haidar, 42, was released from hospital in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands late Thursday, declaring triumph in her protest at ...

Moroccan authorities expelled to the Canary Islands Saturday a Western Sahara rights activist who was recently awarded a major peace prize in New York, a security source said. Aminatou Haidar, 42, was arrested Friday in the disputed territory's main city of Laayoune after arriving at the airport from the Spanish archipelago for allegedly refusing to carry out police formalities ...

At least eight people drowned Saturday when a small boat carrying dozens of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa sank off the coast of Morocco, security sources said. Eleven people survived the accident, and Spanish and Moroccan helicopters and boats were searching for more off the island of Perejil, in Moroccan waters near Ceuta, a tiny Spanish enclave in north Africa. "The ...